To avoid stress daily run five kilometres
Posted on: 16/Feb/2018 9:18:16 AM
In this fast paced world everybody leads stressful life is well known. These days stress begins very early even at teen age due to many factors. Stress leads to many health problems and people try various things to overcome this stress. Exercise in any form is done by most of us to overcome this stress.
Now the latest news that has come out is running for 5 kilometres daily would reduce this stress. Moreover it is said that this running would also help in protecting the memory.
The regular exercises we do results in increase of the mental power plus it also increases over all mental well being of the individuals.
Hippocampus in the brain is very important as it plays a huge role in memory and learning. It is now brought out that by running daily reduces negative impacts of chronic stress on this hippocampus and that is superb piece of information.
It must be noted that when the connections between the neurons get strengthened over a period of time the memory formation and recall takes place inside the hippocampus. Long term potentiation or LTP is the name given for this synaptic strengthening.
According to the researchers chronic stress weakens the synapses or connections leading to reduction of this LTP. This finally results in reduction in the memory power.
It is now revealed that exercise is simple and easy method to remove the negative impacts on the memory of chronic stress. It is not easy to control stress in our lives but how much we exercise could be controlled by us.
It is important to mention that these findings were published in the journal of Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. Located close to the sensory organs this brain serves as the centre of the nervous system and this brain is highly complex in nature is known.
